July 11, 2024
The One About BrickSlopes and The Utah Lego Fan Event
Exploring the World of LEGO with BrickSlopes: An Interview with Bryan Benson
In this episode of 'The Best Podcast In Utah,' hosts Just Blane and Becks sit down with Bryan Benson, organizer of BrickSlopes, an annual LEGO convention in Utah. They discuss Bryan's deep love for LEGO, which began in childhood and evolved into a significant hobby. Bryan shares how BrickSlopes started ten years ago and how it has grown to a 75,000 square foot event space with over 14,000 attendees. They also cover the unique aspects of the convention, such as the various activities for both builders and the general public, including speed builds, blind builds, and interactive displays. Bryan reveals some exciting elements for this year's convention, including appearances by notable LEGO figures from Denmark and a Dungeons and Dragons-themed LEGO set and game. The episode provides insights into the vibrant LEGO community, and the hosts even tease a potential on-site broadcast from the event.
Tickets: https://brickslopes.com/
Promo: RDBLego for 15% off!
00:00 Introduction and Host's Excitement
02:25 Meet Bryan: The LEGO Enthusiast
02:49 Bryan's LEGO Journey
04:09 Brick Slopes: The LEGO Convention
07:05 LEGO Lingo and Community
08:21 Event Details and Activities
12:30 Personal LEGO Stories and Builds
15:26 Convention Growth and Future Plans
20:56 Special Guests and Partnerships
23:39 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
#LEGO #BrickSlopes #UtahEvents #LEGOConvention #AFOL #LEGOCommunity #FamilyFun #LEGOFans #BuildAndPlay #EpicBuilds
Transcript
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All right.
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We're with our guests now.
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I have told you guys how excited I am for this guest.
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Look, I almost missed the flight yesterday.
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I was in the airport yesterday because A LEGO store was right there in the Salt Lake City area.
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I'm serious.
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If my plane hadn't have been delayed for me, listen to this, listen to this.
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Before we get to our guest, my plane was delayed because it was too hot.
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I have never in my life been delayed because too hot, but luckily I got to spend some time in that Lego store.
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Yes.
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Which brings me a long way to segue into our guest.
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Welcome to the show.
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Bryan.
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Is a love of Lego.
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Is that the best way to say it for you? Or is, is that just You love Legos, right? Yeah, I mean, the best way for me would probably just say I have a problem.
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Uh, it was love and it's turned into a problem.
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Oh no.
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Well, this is really exciting.
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Did it start when you were a kid? Like you've got it, like, was it a Lego? I don't want to jump too far, but yeah.
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No, no.
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I mean, yeah, I think like everybody else or most people, I, I definitely loved Lego when I was a kid.
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Um, you know, my, um, we didn't have a lot of Lego, but I had friends who did and I loved it and then, you know, when I got older and started, you know, making more money and it became an option.
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Uh, I, I started getting back into it and it wasn't very long before I was real deep.
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Real deep back in the community.
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Now I see behind you, you've got like, it looks like a whole bunch of little Lego figurines, right? Is that what you've got going on? So Lego does a collectible figures, you know, a couple of times throughout the year usually.
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And, um, my wife, she also loves Lego.
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She actually has a little, uh, Lego business online.
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And, uh, one of the things she sells on there in addition to jewelry and some t shirts and stuff is these custom, uh, frames to display your collectible figures in.
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All right, so how many of those do you got there behind you? Oh man, there's 20, I think there's 28 series there and, and, and there's a lot more that they have, you know, they've got like an NBA series and, um, some, some other things that aren't displayed here.
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So this is awesome.
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We want to get into, um, Brick Slopes and you know, Brick Slopes has been around for 10 years.
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Tell us a little bit and our listeners, a little bit about Brick Slopes, what it is, how it started, your involvement, a little bit of that backstory.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, this is our 10th year.
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This is our birthday.
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We're super excited about that.
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Um, and, and we love, uh, being able to bring, Lego to the community here in Utah.
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And that's really how it started.
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Um, the original founders of Brick Slopes were coming back from another convention, actually in Oregon.
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And they said, man, that was so much fun.
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We need to bring that to our community, not only for, you know, the builders, but also For, you know, just general, the general community to come in and see really what you can do with the brick beyond what Lego, you know, kind of tells you, you can do with the brick.
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So, um, they came back, they've got a little group together and they, they started planning it.
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And 10 years later, yeah, here we are.
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Oh, sorry.
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I was just going to say there's only a certain number of recognized Lego conventions, right? And, and you guys happen to be one of the, what, 10 that they recognize? 11 that they recognize? 11.
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There's 11 that they recognize.
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Three of them are outside of the United States.
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Uh, technically four, uh, cause there's one in Canada.
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But, uh, yeah, we, we feel very privileged to be among the 11 that Lego recognizes and provides support for.
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How did that happen? Like, how did that come about? Did you go ask them? Did they come to you? Was it a mutual, what was that like? I know there's a, there's a whole application process that, you know, at the time you had to go through, um, talk about your event, the when, where, why, And we'll kind of support you, you might expect from Lego.
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Um, and then they really communicate to you, you know, these are our values.
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Um, these are the things that we expect from you and, you know, we do have to maintain those requirements from them and, and report to them, but it's totally worth it to be able to partner, partner with such a great.
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You know, company, long lasting company.
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And, you know, we really believe in a lot of their values as well.
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And, and find that they align with, you know, the local Utah culture.
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And being able to use that name, right.
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I mean, the Lego name and branding is just recognizable.
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It's huge.
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It's just, I would say that for them to authorize, who gives you as much credibility, because that's saying that.
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They're like, they're not trying to tarnish their name because that is a, that's a, that's a known name.
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That's positive thoughts, whatever.
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I think that's a, I think that's just a true test of what you've done.
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To me, I think it's, from what you've already been saying, like, you've got a true passion for this.
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I want to ask you though, you've said a couple things already.
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Is there a lingo? Is there a, I've heard builder and I've heard, let me, what are some of the C's and yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, totally.
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So if I, if I say mock or MOC, uh, that stands for my own creation and that's really what the convention is.
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There's very few rules about displaying at a convention.
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One of the big ones is though, no instructions.
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Lego does a great job, but the whole point is we want you to use the Lego brick and, uh, be creative.
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and build something out of your imagination.
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And so, uh, that's, that's what a mock is.
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Um, and then you'll, you'll probably hear me say, you know, I have trouble forgetting I'm not talking, you know, to Lego addicts like me, but you'll hear me say A Fol probably.
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Um, and A Fol is an adult fan of Lego.
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There are also T Fols and K Fols, and you can probably figure that out.
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But yeah, there's, there's a really big community here in Utah of A Fols, and there's a club and everything.
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They meet monthly, and yeah.
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Let me, let me be clear.
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That's not A Holes.
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No, no.
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There are some jokes like that, though.
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I'll tell you that.
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Oh, no, this is great.
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So, You know, we wanted to bring you on the show as well because Utah is a very, tends to be a very family oriented, um, you know, place.
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And we just, when you reached out, we were like, this is absolutely amazing that this event is coming up.
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So tell us a little bit about what we can expect and when this event is happening here in Utah.
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Yeah, you're, you're a thousand percent right.
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Um, Utah is all about Lego.
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As a matter of fact, our Lego store here is one of the top performers in all of Lego.
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Um, and that includes, you know, like the Disney stores.
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So yeah, Utahns love their Lego.
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And one thing that sets our convention apart from, from some of the others is, um, you know, we really do cater to the builders.
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Like that's our primary focus.
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Um, but I would say our secondary focus is providing, um, you know, a safe, fun family environment, um, for, for the local.
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People to come.
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And we do that by, you know, not only having these amazing creations that come from all over the world, builders come from all over the world.
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Um, yeah.
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So the pub, like that's the first thing, right.
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The people want to come in, be inspired, see those, but we also provide a lot of, um, fun activities.
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So we've got a brick pit on the floor that has, Five tons of Lego in it.
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I mean, kids can do angels in there, whatever they want to do.
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Lego angels, Blane.
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Does it have to be kids? Okay.
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You guys are going to be addicted.
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We've got a graffiti wall, um, a racetrack.
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And of course vendors.
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There's lots of vendors that come and you know, my wife will be there.
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She'll have some frames, jewelry, stuff like that.
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But then also, um, you know, and again, things for the adults, not only the, the play ability, but we also have a stage on the floor where, um, Lego masters from the Fox TV show will come and do panels and they'll talk about their experience, um, answer questions.
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Um, Yeah, a lot of influencers will, will do presentations from there.
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And yeah, we just, we have all kinds of things for you to do.
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Um, beyond just, you know, coming in looking at Lego.
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That's so awesome.
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And when are the dates? When will that be here? Yeah, it's coming up soon.
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It's gonna be August, uh, 22nd, no, 23rd, 24th and 25th for the public to come in.
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So Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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And we do, you know, for any of your listeners who say, you know, I didn't even know there was a community like this, I build, maybe I want to come and display, you know, our setup day is a day before that, and you can register on the website, you know, as an AFOL and, uh, and come in and participate and be a part of the community.
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And that's brickslopes.
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com, right? You can go to brickslopes.
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com, get tickets.
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What do the ticket costs? Like, what's the price for one of these? Yeah, so to come as a public, it's, it's really not that expensive.
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We tell everybody buy in advance because it's, uh, 12 in advance of the show.
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If you buy online, it's nothing.
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12 spent? Oh, yeah.
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I know, right? What a value.
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Seriously, what a value.
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We also have a family pass, too, that'll save you even more, you know, if you've got a family of six, you can go on there and essentially buy five tickets and you get one for free.
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Nice.
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Yeah, a lot of big families here in Utah.
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So, again, you buy those tickets at Brick Slopes with an S.
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Dot com Brick slopes.com.
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Awesome.
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Exactly.
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What about our listeners? Our listeners got anything special out there? We got a promo code to hit throw 'em or what, what we got? Yeah.
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Thousand percent.
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I wrote it down where? Because I know I was gonna forget.
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Yeah, so we're, we're giving your listeners 15% off, um, which is, we do a lot of discounts, but we don't usually do 15%.
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So, um, huge.
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You guys.
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Yeah.
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Use the code RDBLEGO.
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I had to write it down.
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And that works on the general admission tickets.
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Um, not the family pass cause family pass is cheaper than that, but yeah.
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Let me, let me ask you, I don't want to get out of here just yet.
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Cause I got, I got, I got some, I got to get into the real questions for you.
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And I don't want to do that.
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Like, what's your favorite thing you ever built? Because that's hard.
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I would assume it's like, that's like picking a favorite child.
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Like you can't do that.
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For me, it's my, uh, I was like, is that a hard question? I think I have one too.
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But I'd love to hear some crazy facts.
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I mean, we can look up the world facts and all that out there, but like for you personally, like what's the most pieces.
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Like, what's your biggest Lego build of all time? Yeah, it's funny.
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It's funny that you ask it that way.
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So there's actually t shirts you can get that, um, answer all of the frequently asked questions from, from the public.
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Like how many pieces is it glued? Did you use instructions? Um, I, I, I used to know on the piece count, but it's been a couple of years since I, I built that one and I forgot.
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When I took it apart, I counted all of the pieces.
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Um, but I can tell you with that one, the build was, it was about four feet deep and ten feet long.
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Um, and that was a pirate island.
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Um, my wife and I traveled around with that for about two years, going to other conventions, sister conventions, um, around the United States.
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And, you know, it really, We're kind of competing against each other in a way, you know, it's really about the creativity, spending time with each other.
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Um, but, you know, there are awards and trophies and, you know, we want to see, you know, who's stepping up the creativity and.
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So that, that was probably our, our favorite build, the Pirate Island.
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That's crazy.
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I had a 2000 something piece Nintendo set thing.
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One time I put it all together and I think there was a couple hundred pieces left over, but most of it, most of it made it into what I put together.
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You're designed.
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You have to have an incredible amount of patience.
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Uh, there's something about it though.
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That is very.
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Serene.
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Like, I don't know.
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There's something cool about it.
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And I like that you said that you spend time with your wife.
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So what do you guys do? You guys get in the same room? Is that date night? Do you guys just start snuggling? Like, I mean, Pretty much, pretty much every night, you know, my wife and I are empty nesters.
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Now all of our kids are out, out on their own.
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And so, yeah, we've got a Lego room and, um, yeah, so my wife is working on a creation right now that she wants to, um, Uh, have at Brick Slopes this year and it's basically a recreation of one of her, her favorite books.
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Um, and I, I'm not working on anything right now because I'm, I, you know, I'm just like really focused on making the convention happen.
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But, um, we do, yeah, we, we go down quite regularly and just.
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Zone out, help each other come up with ideas, different kinds of techniques, um, to make things work.
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Absolutely awesome.
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And it sounds like this is going to be one of the biggest conventions that you guys have had.
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You're coming up, we've talked about it 10 years.
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Talk to me about the growth, like where you started as far as your convention size to where we're going this year.
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Yeah.
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Like what, what did year one look like and what, yeah, I want to, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I was, I was glad you asked me that.
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Cause you know, it's, it's, It's pretty exciting.
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Um, so the first year, you know, the convention hall was 25, 000 square feet, which sounds, sounds like a lot, you know, but it's kind of small.
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25, 000 square feet.
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We had 90 builders come that, that year and 6, 000 public.
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And that was awesome.
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You know, so, so excited about that.
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Um, Fast forward, you know, last year and this year.
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So this year we're going to use 75, 000, um, square feet.
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Um, so we tripled our, our footprint.
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Um, last year we had 350, uh, builders come really shooting for, for plus 400, 425 range.
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And yeah, so again, 6, 000 public first year, last year we had 14, 000 and I certainly anticipate that this year we'll, we'll be even bigger.
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That is massive.
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That's massive.
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Do you guys do any sort of, um, like timed builds? Like where they're on a clock and, you know, you're like under the pressure.
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Yeah, so, so if you attend, excuse me, if you attend as an AFOL, like I said, you're there for four days.
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It's quite, it's quite the event.
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Um, and there's all kinds of games that we, um, provide for, for those attendees.
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Um, there, yeah, things like, uh, speed build.
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There's even a team speed build where you'll get a big set and they, you know, have to work together.
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Um, Blind Build, where, you know, you don't use any instructions, you just look at the box.
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Blane, I'm volunteering you for that.
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You're going to go into the Blind Build.
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I'll do it.
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Do it.
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You can do it.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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So, yeah, those are, those are some of the things.
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And we do have some cool things for the public too.
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I mean, I'm sure that you guys have, uh, you know, a million, uh, moms that are listening right now and they're all saying, my kid, my kid does that.
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He gets a set, he tears it apart and he, he builds out, he or she builds out of their imagination.
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And we actually, um, we provide table space for, um, for kids from the public to, um, you register for a spot.
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They can, when they buy their tickets, they can buy what's called a kid's block upgrade and they get a spot on a table where they can actually bring their, their own custom build, show it off for friends, family, grandma and grandpa, just like they're one of the big kids.
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Oh my word.
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That is cool.
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If I'm hearing that correct, parents, moms out there, You can dump your kids off down here for four days.
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You can pick them back up on, at the end of, is that what I'm hearing? They'll be doing Lego angels and, you know, showing off their builds.
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And I don't think our insurance covers that.
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Sorry.
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I misheard.
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Lane has little kids and he's always trying to find a way to like pawn 'em off.
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Now I, I'm looking, I'm just looking for a way, you know, I'm looking for a way.
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Have you, I gotta ask you this, man.
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Have you been to, to Disneyland, to the, to the, and I know everybody's been to Legoland or, you know, there's, there's that, but Disney has its own Lego store.
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Mm-Hmm.
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And it's one of the first things you see when you walk in.
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It's, it's amazing.
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Like you, you cannot go to Disneyland and walk through there without going in that store.
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Have you been there? Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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And, and, you know, for the people listening, you know, that, that know the experience you're talking about where you see, you know, Maleficent's dragon out there and whatnot, like that's what you should, the kind of stuff you can expect out of Brick Slopes is a, as a matter of fact, you know.
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I hope I'm not divulging any confidence here, but there's a group coming from Arizona this year who has built a recreation of Mother Willow, Grandmother Willow, from Pocahontas.
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Yay! And it's, uh, eight It's six, well, it's six feet tall and eight feet wide and just has this huge canopy and it's actually interactive.
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So, oh my gosh, how cool.
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It's going to be at, that's going to be at the, the, this year.
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Yeah.
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August 23rd, 24th, 25th.
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Where is it? I didn't even ask what's the location.
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What was the location? Yeah, Mountain America Expo Center.
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Is that, yeah, I think they're still calling it that.
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Used to be the Southtown Expo Center, Mountain America Expo Center.
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Yeah, it's really close to, you know, there's uh, there's public transit that gets off right there near the, near the stadium and the movie theater, so.
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Centrally located.
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Yeah, just right there at the, the old expo or the expo center.
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Yes.
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And Sandy.
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Yeah, man.
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Becks, you've got anything else, man? I just want to, I appreciate Bryan jumping out.
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Like I got so many more questions.
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I don't think this is the last time we're going to talk to you.
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It's not because we're coming down there.
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We'll be at the, yes, the comp, we'll be at the Lego.
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Yes, we will.
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I wanted to know, like, give me a couple other things that we can look forward to seeing.
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Like, what are you, how about this? I got a better way to put that.
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What are you personally looking forward to the most? Oh, there you go.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, and that's from a consumer, that's from your, from a, from a fan's perspective, not from behind some footage.
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What are you looking forward to, man? Yeah.
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You know, I, I mean, I'm working a lot, right.
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But, but there, there, there are a couple of things that are really exciting to me.
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You know, this year we, um, again, in partnering with Lego, they are sending us some really cool representatives from Lego all the way from Denmark.
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Um, so we're going to have, um, a gentleman called Stuart Harris and, you know, some of your deeper Lego fans will know who he is.
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Um, he designed the Lego house.
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which is a huge, um, not really a museum, but, but it's, um, it's kind of like a museum dedicated to Lego right outside of where the corporate offices are right next to where Lego was founded.
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The guy who founded Lego, his, his house and workshop is still right there.
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And now, you know, there's this huge museum there.
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And he, so he was the lead designer.
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that project.
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And he's, he's coming to Brick Slopes.
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He'll be doing presentations and doing Q and A's with the public as well.
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And then, um, I don't know.
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I, I don't, but do any of you guys play Dungeons and Dragons? No, I don't.
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I do have my oldest, my oldest daughter does.
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Okay.
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So, so, um, this year, um, Lego released a Dungeons and Dragons set, um, which is phenomenal.
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It's beautiful.
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And, um, so Brickslips is actually sponsoring a, um, a game for the builders that come, um, where they can, they can sign up for a spot and they can play a tournament style Dungeons and Dragons battle.
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Um, and there'll be a winner and they're sending the lead designer of that, Set to Brick Slopes to DM that game and again, meet the public.
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So, you know, if you guys know any people who love that set or love Dungeons and Dragons, Hasbro's even getting involved giving us some donations that we can give away for prizes.
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And you get your set signed.
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Yeah, it's crazy exciting.
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That's an incredible partnership, honestly.
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Yes.
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Those two fan bases.
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I mean, that's, that's, that's nerd guess huge, right? Oh, it's deep.
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It's deep in the nerdism.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I love that.
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And, and, and that's a crazy, that's a wild story.
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You were telling about the, the original, the original house and all that.
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Yeah.
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That's, that's old Kirk Christensen, that's the, the founder of Lego.
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Yep.
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Uh, the family still owns Lego as far as I know.
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The Christensen family, Kirk Christensen family.
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That's, that's, that's a, a legacy that will never end and for you to be partnered up with that as well.
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All I'm hearing is these absolute anger partnerships, like, you couldn't have asked for better, right? Like, that's awesome, dude.
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Like, you killed it.
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I can't wait to see this.
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I can't wait to see it firsthand.
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I really can't.
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We're excited to have you guys there.
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And, uh, hey, maybe you guys will have to do a show from there.
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We will.
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Yeah, we will.
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You know what? I didn't want to put you on the spot, but I was already going to say, hey.
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You weren't even asked, Blane.
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We can broadcast from this, from the whole, we can broadcast from there.
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Talk to some of the builders.
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I'd love to talk to some.
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Oh, it'd be so great.
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Yeah.
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We'll have to dive into the website.
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Um, or maybe even, you know, just let us know, Bryan, what the agenda looks like when you've got your panelists there.
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And we'll absolutely, we'd be honored to be part of that.
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That would be amazing.
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Awesome.
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Appreciate you jumping on with us, Bryan.
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Thank you so much.
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Yes.
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Thank you again, Bryan.
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All right.
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I have told you guys how excited I am for this guest.
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Look, I almost missed the flight yesterday.
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I was in the airport yesterday because A LEGO store was right there in the Salt Lake City area.
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I'm serious.
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If my plane hadn't have been delayed for me, listen to this, listen to this.
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Before we get to our guest, my plane was delayed because it was too hot.
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I have never in my life been delayed because too hot, but luckily I got to spend some time in that Lego store.
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Yes.
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Which brings me a long way to segue into our guest.
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Welcome to the show.
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Bryan.
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Is a love of Lego.
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Is that the best way to say it for you? Or is, is that just You love Legos, right? Yeah, I mean, the best way for me would probably just say I have a problem.
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Uh, it was love and it's turned into a problem.
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Oh no.
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Well, this is really exciting.
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Did it start when you were a kid? Like you've got it, like, was it a Lego? I don't want to jump too far, but yeah.
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No, no.
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I mean, yeah, I think like everybody else or most people, I, I definitely loved Lego when I was a kid.
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Um, you know, my, um, we didn't have a lot of Lego, but I had friends who did and I loved it and then, you know, when I got older and started, you know, making more money and it became an option.
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Uh, I, I started getting back into it and it wasn't very long before I was real deep.
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Real deep back in the community.
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Now I see behind you, you've got like, it looks like a whole bunch of little Lego figurines, right? Is that what you've got going on? So Lego does a collectible figures, you know, a couple of times throughout the year usually.
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And, um, my wife, she also loves Lego.
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She actually has a little, uh, Lego business online.
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And, uh, one of the things she sells on there in addition to jewelry and some t shirts and stuff is these custom, uh, frames to display your collectible figures in.
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All right, so how many of those do you got there behind you? Oh man, there's 20, I think there's 28 series there and, and, and there's a lot more that they have, you know, they've got like an NBA series and, um, some, some other things that aren't displayed here.
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So this is awesome.
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We want to get into, um, Brick Slopes and you know, Brick Slopes has been around for 10 years.
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Tell us a little bit and our listeners, a little bit about Brick Slopes, what it is, how it started, your involvement, a little bit of that backstory.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, this is our 10th year.
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This is our birthday.
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We're super excited about that.
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Um, and, and we love, uh, being able to bring, Lego to the community here in Utah.
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And that's really how it started.
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Um, the original founders of Brick Slopes were coming back from another convention, actually in Oregon.
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And they said, man, that was so much fun.
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We need to bring that to our community, not only for, you know, the builders, but also For, you know, just general, the general community to come in and see really what you can do with the brick beyond what Lego, you know, kind of tells you, you can do with the brick.
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So, um, they came back, they've got a little group together and they, they started planning it.
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And 10 years later, yeah, here we are.
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I was just going to say there's only a certain number of recognized Lego conventions, right? And, and you guys happen to be one of the, what, 10 that they recognize? 11 that they recognize? 11.
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There's 11 that they recognize.
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Three of them are outside of the United States.
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Uh, technically four, uh, cause there's one in Canada.
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But, uh, yeah, we, we feel very privileged to be among the 11 that Lego recognizes and provides support for.
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How did that happen? Like, how did that come about? Did you go ask them? Did they come to you? Was it a mutual, what was that like? I know there's a, there's a whole application process that, you know, at the time you had to go through, um, talk about your event, the when, where, why, And we'll kind of support you, you might expect from Lego.
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Um, and then they really communicate to you, you know, these are our values.
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Um, these are the things that we expect from you and, you know, we do have to maintain those requirements from them and, and report to them, but it's totally worth it to be able to partner, partner with such a great.
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You know, company, long lasting company.
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And, you know, we really believe in a lot of their values as well.
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And, and find that they align with, you know, the local Utah culture.
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And being able to use that name, right.
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I mean, the Lego name and branding is just recognizable.
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It's huge.
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It's just, I would say that for them to authorize, who gives you as much credibility, because that's saying that.
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They're like, they're not trying to tarnish their name because that is a, that's a, that's a known name.
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That's positive thoughts, whatever.
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I think that's a, I think that's just a true test of what you've done.
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To me, I think it's, from what you've already been saying, like, you've got a true passion for this.
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I want to ask you though, you've said a couple things already.
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Is there a lingo? Is there a, I've heard builder and I've heard, let me, what are some of the C's and yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, totally.
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So if I, if I say mock or MOC, uh, that stands for my own creation and that's really what the convention is.
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There's very few rules about displaying at a convention.
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One of the big ones is though, no instructions.
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Lego does a great job, but the whole point is we want you to use the Lego brick and, uh, be creative.
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and build something out of your imagination.
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And so, uh, that's, that's what a mock is.
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Um, and then you'll, you'll probably hear me say, you know, I have trouble forgetting I'm not talking, you know, to Lego addicts like me, but you'll hear me say A Fol probably.
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Um, and A Fol is an adult fan of Lego.
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There are also T Fols and K Fols, and you can probably figure that out.
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But yeah, there's, there's a really big community here in Utah of A Fols, and there's a club and everything.
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They meet monthly, and yeah.
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That's not A Holes.
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There are some jokes like that, though.
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Oh, no, this is great.
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So, You know, we wanted to bring you on the show as well because Utah is a very, tends to be a very family oriented, um, you know, place.
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And we just, when you reached out, we were like, this is absolutely amazing that this event is coming up.
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So tell us a little bit about what we can expect and when this event is happening here in Utah.
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Yeah, you're, you're a thousand percent right.
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Um, Utah is all about Lego.
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As a matter of fact, our Lego store here is one of the top performers in all of Lego.
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Um, and that includes, you know, like the Disney stores.
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So yeah, Utahns love their Lego.
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And one thing that sets our convention apart from, from some of the others is, um, you know, we really do cater to the builders.
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Like that's our primary focus.
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Um, but I would say our secondary focus is providing, um, you know, a safe, fun family environment, um, for, for the local.
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People to come.
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And we do that by, you know, not only having these amazing creations that come from all over the world, builders come from all over the world.
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So the pub, like that's the first thing, right.
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The people want to come in, be inspired, see those, but we also provide a lot of, um, fun activities.
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So we've got a brick pit on the floor that has, Five tons of Lego in it.
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I mean, kids can do angels in there, whatever they want to do.
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Lego angels, Blane.
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Does it have to be kids? Okay.
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You guys are going to be addicted.
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We've got a graffiti wall, um, a racetrack.
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And of course vendors.
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There's lots of vendors that come and you know, my wife will be there.
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She'll have some frames, jewelry, stuff like that.
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But then also, um, you know, and again, things for the adults, not only the, the play ability, but we also have a stage on the floor where, um, Lego masters from the Fox TV show will come and do panels and they'll talk about their experience, um, answer questions.
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Um, Yeah, a lot of influencers will, will do presentations from there.
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And yeah, we just, we have all kinds of things for you to do.
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Um, beyond just, you know, coming in looking at Lego.
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That's so awesome.
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And when are the dates? When will that be here? Yeah, it's coming up soon.
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It's gonna be August, uh, 22nd, no, 23rd, 24th and 25th for the public to come in.
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So Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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And we do, you know, for any of your listeners who say, you know, I didn't even know there was a community like this, I build, maybe I want to come and display, you know, our setup day is a day before that, and you can register on the website, you know, as an AFOL and, uh, and come in and participate and be a part of the community.
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And that's brickslopes.
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com, right? You can go to brickslopes.
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What do the ticket costs? Like, what's the price for one of these? Yeah, so to come as a public, it's, it's really not that expensive.
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We tell everybody buy in advance because it's, uh, 12 in advance of the show.
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If you buy online, it's nothing.
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12 spent? Oh, yeah.
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I know, right? What a value.
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Seriously, what a value.
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We also have a family pass, too, that'll save you even more, you know, if you've got a family of six, you can go on there and essentially buy five tickets and you get one for free.
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Yeah, a lot of big families here in Utah.
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So, again, you buy those tickets at Brick Slopes with an S.
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Dot com Brick slopes.com.
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What about our listeners? Our listeners got anything special out there? We got a promo code to hit throw 'em or what, what we got? Yeah.
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Thousand percent.
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I wrote it down where? Because I know I was gonna forget.
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Yeah, so we're, we're giving your listeners 15% off, um, which is, we do a lot of discounts, but we don't usually do 15%.
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So, um, huge.
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Use the code RDBLEGO.
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I had to write it down.
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And that works on the general admission tickets.
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Um, not the family pass cause family pass is cheaper than that, but yeah.
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Let me, let me ask you, I don't want to get out of here just yet.
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Cause I got, I got, I got some, I got to get into the real questions for you.
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And I don't want to do that.
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Like, what's your favorite thing you ever built? Because that's hard.
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I would assume it's like, that's like picking a favorite child.
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Like you can't do that.
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For me, it's my, uh, I was like, is that a hard question? I think I have one too.
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But I'd love to hear some crazy facts.
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I mean, we can look up the world facts and all that out there, but like for you personally, like what's the most pieces.
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Like, what's your biggest Lego build of all time? Yeah, it's funny.
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It's funny that you ask it that way.
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So there's actually t shirts you can get that, um, answer all of the frequently asked questions from, from the public.
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Like how many pieces is it glued? Did you use instructions? Um, I, I, I used to know on the piece count, but it's been a couple of years since I, I built that one and I forgot.
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When I took it apart, I counted all of the pieces.
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Um, but I can tell you with that one, the build was, it was about four feet deep and ten feet long.
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Um, and that was a pirate island.
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Um, my wife and I traveled around with that for about two years, going to other conventions, sister conventions, um, around the United States.
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And, you know, it really, We're kind of competing against each other in a way, you know, it's really about the creativity, spending time with each other.
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Um, but, you know, there are awards and trophies and, you know, we want to see, you know, who's stepping up the creativity and.
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So that, that was probably our, our favorite build, the Pirate Island.
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That's crazy.
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I had a 2000 something piece Nintendo set thing.
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One time I put it all together and I think there was a couple hundred pieces left over, but most of it, most of it made it into what I put together.
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You're designed.
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You have to have an incredible amount of patience.
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Uh, there's something about it though.
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That is very.
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Serene.
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Like, I don't know.
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There's something cool about it.
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And I like that you said that you spend time with your wife.
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So what do you guys do? You guys get in the same room? Is that date night? Do you guys just start snuggling? Like, I mean, Pretty much, pretty much every night, you know, my wife and I are empty nesters.
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Now all of our kids are out, out on their own.
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And so, yeah, we've got a Lego room and, um, yeah, so my wife is working on a creation right now that she wants to, um, Uh, have at Brick Slopes this year and it's basically a recreation of one of her, her favorite books.
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Um, and I, I'm not working on anything right now because I'm, I, you know, I'm just like really focused on making the convention happen.
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But, um, we do, yeah, we, we go down quite regularly and just.
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Zone out, help each other come up with ideas, different kinds of techniques, um, to make things work.
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Absolutely awesome.
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And it sounds like this is going to be one of the biggest conventions that you guys have had.
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You're coming up, we've talked about it 10 years.
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Talk to me about the growth, like where you started as far as your convention size to where we're going this year.
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Yeah.
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Like what, what did year one look like and what, yeah, I want to, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I was, I was glad you asked me that.
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Cause you know, it's, it's, It's pretty exciting.
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Um, so the first year, you know, the convention hall was 25, 000 square feet, which sounds, sounds like a lot, you know, but it's kind of small.
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25, 000 square feet.
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We had 90 builders come that, that year and 6, 000 public.
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And that was awesome.
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You know, so, so excited about that.
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Um, Fast forward, you know, last year and this year.
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So this year we're going to use 75, 000, um, square feet.
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Um, so we tripled our, our footprint.
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Um, last year we had 350, uh, builders come really shooting for, for plus 400, 425 range.
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And yeah, so again, 6, 000 public first year, last year we had 14, 000 and I certainly anticipate that this year we'll, we'll be even bigger.
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That is massive.
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That's massive.
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Do you guys do any sort of, um, like timed builds? Like where they're on a clock and, you know, you're like under the pressure.
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Yeah, so, so if you attend, excuse me, if you attend as an AFOL, like I said, you're there for four days.
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It's quite, it's quite the event.
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Um, and there's all kinds of games that we, um, provide for, for those attendees.
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Um, there, yeah, things like, uh, speed build.
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There's even a team speed build where you'll get a big set and they, you know, have to work together.
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Um, Blind Build, where, you know, you don't use any instructions, you just look at the box.
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Blane, I'm volunteering you for that.
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You're going to go into the Blind Build.
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I'll do it.
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Do it.
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You can do it.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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So, yeah, those are, those are some of the things.
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And we do have some cool things for the public too.
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I mean, I'm sure that you guys have, uh, you know, a million, uh, moms that are listening right now and they're all saying, my kid, my kid does that.
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He gets a set, he tears it apart and he, he builds out, he or she builds out of their imagination.
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And we actually, um, we provide table space for, um, for kids from the public to, um, you register for a spot.
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They can, when they buy their tickets, they can buy what's called a kid's block upgrade and they get a spot on a table where they can actually bring their, their own custom build, show it off for friends, family, grandma and grandpa, just like they're one of the big kids.
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Oh my word.
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That is cool.
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If I'm hearing that correct, parents, moms out there, You can dump your kids off down here for four days.
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You can pick them back up on, at the end of, is that what I'm hearing? They'll be doing Lego angels and, you know, showing off their builds.
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And I don't think our insurance covers that.
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Sorry.
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I misheard.
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Lane has little kids and he's always trying to find a way to like pawn 'em off.
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Now I, I'm looking, I'm just looking for a way, you know, I'm looking for a way.
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Have you, I gotta ask you this, man.
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Have you been to, to Disneyland, to the, to the, and I know everybody's been to Legoland or, you know, there's, there's that, but Disney has its own Lego store.
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Mm-Hmm.
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And it's one of the first things you see when you walk in.
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It's, it's amazing.
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Like you, you cannot go to Disneyland and walk through there without going in that store.
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Have you been there? Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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And, and, you know, for the people listening, you know, that, that know the experience you're talking about where you see, you know, Maleficent's dragon out there and whatnot, like that's what you should, the kind of stuff you can expect out of Brick Slopes is a, as a matter of fact, you know.
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I hope I'm not divulging any confidence here, but there's a group coming from Arizona this year who has built a recreation of Mother Willow, Grandmother Willow, from Pocahontas.
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Yay! And it's, uh, eight It's six, well, it's six feet tall and eight feet wide and just has this huge canopy and it's actually interactive.
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So, oh my gosh, how cool.
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It's going to be at, that's going to be at the, the, this year.
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Yeah.
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August 23rd, 24th, 25th.
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Where is it? I didn't even ask what's the location.
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What was the location? Yeah, Mountain America Expo Center.
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Is that, yeah, I think they're still calling it that.
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Used to be the Southtown Expo Center, Mountain America Expo Center.
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Yeah, it's really close to, you know, there's uh, there's public transit that gets off right there near the, near the stadium and the movie theater, so.
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Centrally located.
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Yeah, just right there at the, the old expo or the expo center.
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Yes.
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And Sandy.
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Yeah, man.
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Becks, you've got anything else, man? I just want to, I appreciate Bryan jumping out.
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Like I got so many more questions.
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I don't think this is the last time we're going to talk to you.
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It's not because we're coming down there.
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We'll be at the, yes, the comp, we'll be at the Lego.
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Yes, we will.
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I wanted to know, like, give me a couple other things that we can look forward to seeing.
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Like, what are you, how about this? I got a better way to put that.
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What are you personally looking forward to the most? Oh, there you go.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, and that's from a consumer, that's from your, from a, from a fan's perspective, not from behind some footage.
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What are you looking forward to, man? Yeah.
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You know, I, I mean, I'm working a lot, right.
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But, but there, there, there are a couple of things that are really exciting to me.
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You know, this year we, um, again, in partnering with Lego, they are sending us some really cool representatives from Lego all the way from Denmark.
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Um, so we're going to have, um, a gentleman called Stuart Harris and, you know, some of your deeper Lego fans will know who he is.
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Um, he designed the Lego house.
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which is a huge, um, not really a museum, but, but it's, um, it's kind of like a museum dedicated to Lego right outside of where the corporate offices are right next to where Lego was founded.
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The guy who founded Lego, his, his house and workshop is still right there.
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And now, you know, there's this huge museum there.
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And he, so he was the lead designer.
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that project.
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And he's, he's coming to Brick Slopes.
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He'll be doing presentations and doing Q and A's with the public as well.
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And then, um, I don't know.
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I, I don't, but do any of you guys play Dungeons and Dragons? No, I don't.
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I do have my oldest, my oldest daughter does.
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Okay.
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So, so, um, this year, um, Lego released a Dungeons and Dragons set, um, which is phenomenal.
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It's beautiful.
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And, um, so Brickslips is actually sponsoring a, um, a game for the builders that come, um, where they can, they can sign up for a spot and they can play a tournament style Dungeons and Dragons battle.
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Um, and there'll be a winner and they're sending the lead designer of that, Set to Brick Slopes to DM that game and again, meet the public.
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So, you know, if you guys know any people who love that set or love Dungeons and Dragons, Hasbro's even getting involved giving us some donations that we can give away for prizes.
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And you get your set signed.
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Yeah, it's crazy exciting.
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That's an incredible partnership, honestly.
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Yes.
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Those two fan bases.
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I mean, that's, that's, that's nerd guess huge, right? Oh, it's deep.
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It's deep in the nerdism.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I love that.
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And, and, and that's a crazy, that's a wild story.
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You were telling about the, the original, the original house and all that.
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Yeah.
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That's, that's old Kirk Christensen, that's the, the founder of Lego.
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Yep.
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Uh, the family still owns Lego as far as I know.
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The Christensen family, Kirk Christensen family.
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That's, that's, that's a, a legacy that will never end and for you to be partnered up with that as well.
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All I'm hearing is these absolute anger partnerships, like, you couldn't have asked for better, right? Like, that's awesome, dude.
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Like, you killed it.
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I can't wait to see this.
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I can't wait to see it firsthand.
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I really can't.
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We're excited to have you guys there.
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And, uh, hey, maybe you guys will have to do a show from there.
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We will.
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Yeah, we will.
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You know what? I didn't want to put you on the spot, but I was already going to say, hey.
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You weren't even asked, Blane.
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We can broadcast from this, from the whole, we can broadcast from there.
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Talk to some of the builders.
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I'd love to talk to some.
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Oh, it'd be so great.
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Yeah.
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We'll have to dive into the website.
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Um, or maybe even, you know, just let us know, Bryan, what the agenda looks like when you've got your panelists there.
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And we'll absolutely, we'd be honored to be part of that.
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That would be amazing.
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Awesome.
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Appreciate you jumping on with us, Bryan.
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Thank you so much.
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Yes.
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Thank you again, Bryan.
